Category: Technology

When you hunt the tree of heaven, you come to know it by its smell. A waft of creamy peanut butter leads you to a tall trunk, silvery and nubbled like cantaloupe rind, rising into a wide crown of papery pink seeds and slender leaves. To kill this tree, you cannot simply cut it down with […]

Some scientists and ethicists think He deserves a chance to prove that he’s capable of producing scientifically valid and ethically sound work. “His case is publicly known enough that the world will judge his credibility,” says Sheila Jasanoff, professor of science and technology studies at Harvard University. “I think anything he says will be treated […]

Tree Abraham works as an art director in the publishing industry, so she considers herself a person who primarily designs books and not a person who writes them. However, in her new book Cyclettes (Unnamed Press, $26), Abraham has done both. The 200-page hardcover collects Abraham’s delicately composed biographical vignettes alongside her illustrations, charts, photographs, and […]

It’s worth noting that we previously listed Ellume as an “At-Home Covid Test to Avoid” because it was recalled due to “higher-than-acceptable false-positive test results” for Covid-19 back in October and November of 2021. In December, security researchers found that they were able to fabricate positive or negative test results through Ellume’s Bluetooth-enabled test device. […]

For far too long, commercial vehicles remained an underserved sector of the electric vehicle market. Despite making up over 23 million vehicles worldwide and 82 percent of vehicle emissions, the sector is still dominated by legacy manufacturers that have struggled to make the shift to electric. In 2023, however, we will see a transformation in […]

Women’s ovaries age prematurely, at more than twice the rate of other organs. Why that is remains a mystery to scientists, making it one of the most important unanswered questions in the field of reproductive health.  What we do know is that reproductive aging dramatically impacts women’s health. For instance, as more women1 delay childbearing, […]

Living among mines then has a well-documented deleterious effect on a country’s psychological health. Research shows that just the knowledge that you are in an area contaminated with explosives can lead to psychological scarring—and in some cases to post-traumatic stress disorder—even if you are never wounded by a mine or trap or witness one being triggered. This sometimes […]

New laws in New York City and California regulating the use of AI and personal data are set to go into effect Jan. 1, 2023 — and and while enforcement has been delayed, they’ll have far-reaching effects outside of those jurisdictions, experts say.  In New York, Local Law 144 will regulate how companies can use […]

For the past three seemingly glorious years, the 30-year-old boy wonder Sam Bankman-Fried, or SBF, crowned the “King of Crypto,” bore an uncanny resemblance to the legendary character Robin Hood. Using his quant and coding skills instead of a bow-and-arrow, he built, at breakneck speed, a $32 billion empire: the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, and the […]